What's the new server gonna be?

Subject says it all, what kind of specs are you getting?
reason I'm curious is I work for IBM and I might be able to convince the sales guy to do a really low balled price and save you guys some money. No advertising or anything like that required, just trying to help beyond sending money. IBM is very price competitve compared to Dell anyway.
Tom
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From what I know...Packy was going to go with Dell gear.
If I may though, I'd like to chime in my support for IBM servers. Especially if you're going to be running Linux (which Parker is planning to do). IBM will fully support their servers under Linux and in fact will build them for you if you so choose.
All the equipment in the IBM servers is Linux Friendly and works like a dream.
I run 7 e-Commerce web sites and they all run on IBM hardware. We have over 45 servers running either Windows2000 or a Custom build of Linux. They work wonderfully.
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"I tried to get my medical records from the company but they say they
are confidential and can only be released to other insurance companies,
pharmaceutical reps, suppliers of medical equipment and for some
reason the RNC."

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Will the server have more than one processor? Dual? Quad?
For that matter, is UBB or V-Bulletin smart enough to distribute the workload among multiple servers? Perhaps you can have two running and split the forums up among the servers.
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We are building an entirely new server that is rack mounted with dual processors and more HDs in a RAID 5 config.
We are also going to be using Linux RedHat and it utilizes the dual processors well.
Parker

"I tried to get my medical records from the company but they say they
are confidential and can only be released to other insurance companies,
pharmaceutical reps, suppliers of medical equipment and for some
reason the RNC."

VBulletin could profit from a 2 server setup like all database based boards. But in my opinion it would be an overkill to buy a second one for MySQL.
An Oracle, MsSQL or even Postgres db based board should run on a two server rack.
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes."

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Parker, just checked out the specs of the Dell Poweredge 2550 you said you are getting. Looks like a good choice. You probably are already doing this, but if not - I highly recommend springing for the hot-swappable redundant power supplies. I've been responsible for a number of big ole' rack servers for several years and believe it or not the power supply is the component that fails the most. Having redundant power supplies has saved our bacon on more than one occasion.
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"I tried to get my medical records from the company but they say they
are confidential and can only be released to other insurance companies,
pharmaceutical reps, suppliers of medical equipment and for some
reason the RNC."

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We are currently running a dual Pentium 600 with 1G of RAM and two 9.6G SCSI 10k HDs. So basically we are doubling the whole thing. Processors speed, HD storage space and RAM. We should notice a marked improvement over what we are having to deal with now.
I will probably try to work it were this is as seamless as possible so that all you will notice is the improvement in the speed of the site.
Parker

"I tried to get my medical records from the company but they say they
are confidential and can only be released to other insurance companies,
pharmaceutical reps, suppliers of medical equipment and for some
reason the RNC."

Are you going to keep the other one around to? I assume the bulletin board uses some sort of tiered architecture to make it easy to break up. Of course, two machines == more rack space == more $$/month.